Angela Robinson

• Name — Angela Robinson • Born — 14 February 1971 • Birthplace — Chicago, Illinois, U.S. • Years Active — 1995–present • Occupation — Director, screenwriter, producer • Education — Brown University (B.A.) New York University (MFA) • Partner — Alexandra "Alex" Martinez Kondracke • Children — 1

Robinson was born in Chicago. Robinson attended Brown University, where she majored in theatre and later received an MFA from New York University.

Robinson frequently deals with gay and lesbian topics in her films. Angela Robinson's first screen work was a black and white film, Chickula: Teenage Vampire, about a queer vampire. The film was shown at LGBTQ film festivals in 1995.

Robinson directed the short film D.E.B.S. (2003), produced by POWER UP. The short film has won four awards which includes the Bearfest-Big Bear Lake International Film Festival Jury Award for Best Short Film, the PlanetOut Short Movie Awards Grand Prize, the Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival Jury Prize for Best Lesbian Short Film and New York Lesbian and Gay Film Festival Award for Best Short. Robinson went on to direct a feature-length adaptation of D.E.B.S. (2004). D.E.B.S (2004) is a lesbian romantic comedy about a "spy-in training Amy Bradshaw and a supervillian Lucy Diamond. Amy is assigned to go after Lucy. However, Amy starts to develop feelings for her. " D.E.B.S has made a big impact in queer cinema. Senior entertainment writer named Adam Vary described D.E.B.S as "the gay spy movie" in his article "The New New Queer Cinema". Writer Katrin Horn remarked that D.E.B.S is a groundbreaking movie as the film works to desexualize femme identity previously centered in lesbian chic cinema. Robinson's use of narrative and stylistic techniques in D.E.B.S offered a new lenses into lesbian representations and the structure of heteronormative romantic comedies.

In 2007, Robinson created the online series Girltrash! for OurChart, a social networking website aimed primarily at lesbians. In 2014, Robinson wrote the screenplay for a musical feature film and prequel to her Girltrash! series, Girltrash: All Night Long, directed by Alexandra Kondracke. Robinson was also one of the producers for the film. The film is a lesbian musical drama about two rock and roll musicians named Daisy and Tyler during a night out in the LGBTQ+ subculture of Los Angeles. The film won the audience award in the 2015 Paris International Lesbian and Feminist Film Festival.

In 2017, Robinson worked with cartoonist Terry Moore on a feature film adaptation of graphic novel Strangers in Paradise.

In 2004, Robinson wrote, produced and directed episodes from the show The L Word. The show is about the lives of a group of lesbian and bisexual friends in Los Angeles. Media critic, Samuel A. Chambers argues that the L Words importance is that the show brought a lot of visibility to a range of lesbian and bisexual identities in its character plot lines. Also, many of the guests cast on the show were queer actresses in Hollywood, like Jane Lynch and Sandra Bernhard. In 2006, the show won the 17th annual GLAAD Media award. The award recognizes and honors inclusive representations of LGBTQ+ people and issues that impact them.

Robinson has served as a writer for the television series True Blood. True Blood is an American fantasy drama about Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic waitress, who lives in a rural town in Louisiana. The waitress falls in love with Bill Compton, a vampire, and the two must navigate the challenges that come with their relationship. The fictional show also focuses on vampires' struggle for rights and assimilation in society.

Robinson has also served as writer and co-executive producer for the HBO television series Hung, In addition to her film and TV work, Robinson also wrote the first four issues of the Web ongoing series at DC Comics. In March 2012, it was announced that Robinson would write a supernatural teen thriller with Dawn Olmstead (of Prison Break) and Marti Noxon (of Mad Men) attached as producers. More recently, in 2021, Robinson signed an overall deal with Warner Bros. Television to create scripted television programs for Warner Bros. platforms including Max, basic and premium cable channels and broadcast networks. At Warner Bros., Robinson is currently working as writer and executive producer with HBO Max to develop a series based on Madame X, a DC Comics character also known as Madame Xanadu. Madame X is a clairvoyant who uses tarot cards to tell the future and is immortal due to her deal with Death. The series will be produced by Bad Robot in association with Warner Bros. Television.

Robinson is openly lesbian. She met her partner, television writer and director Alexandra "Alex" Martinez Kondracke, the daughter of Morton Kondracke, while they were both studying at New York University. Kondracke is an activist and filmmaker. In 2009, Kondracke gave birth to their first child, Diego. They live in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles.

• Year — Title — Director — Writer — Producer — Notes • 1999–2001 — Taxicab Confessions — 3 episodes • 2004–2009 — The L Word — Directed 8 episodes, wrote 6 episodes; Role: Angela (episode: "LMFAO") • 2007–2009 — Girltrash! — Executive — Web series; Also editor • 2009–2011 — Hung — Wrote 4 episodes • 2010 — Gigantic — 2 episodes • 2011 — Charlie's Angels — Episode "Runaway Angels" • 2012–2014 — True Blood — Wrote 6 episodes, directed 1 • 2015–2017 — How to Get Away with Murder — Wrote 2 episodes • 2025 — Wednesday — 2 episodes